Thank you PaulS-
that was great info for me, appreiate the reply. 
I wasnt thinking about the carriage return (makes it easier to not add any other text/characters)
(does reading a text file suffer from the same 'problems' as reading serial data? In the sense that you can miss/drop data?.. or not something I need to be concerned about?)
Your suggesting to use the SAME values in my sketch as the ones I name/use in the text file? (got it!)
thanks for the hint/tip of: strtok()
I will google it.. as well as look at a C+ book I have lying around once I get home.
I think I should also look up:
strcmp()
and
atoi()
as those are also new to me..
again thanks for the reply and direct advice!